At noon, NYC Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate John Liu will discuss his proposal to legalize pot, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Also at noon, concerned seniors, advocates, and community leaders will mark Social Security’s 78th anniversary with a rally outside Rep. Michael Grimm’s district office, calling on him to stop attempts to jeopardize the entitlement program, 265 New Dorp Lane, Staten Island.

At 6 p.m., Assemblyman Richard Gottfried discusses the Affordable Health Care program with Balcony and the New York City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Roosevelt Hospital, 2nd Floor Conference Center, 1000 10th Ave., Manhattan.

At 6:30 p.m., there will be a mayoral forum on tolerance and cultural sensitivity at the Museum for Tolerance, 226 East 42nd St., Manhattan. (Liu, Weiner, de Blasio, Thompson, George McDonald will attend; NY1 “Road to City Hall” anchor Errol Louis will moderate).

At 7 p.m., the “Road to City Hall” features a debate between the Manhattan borough president candidates Julie Menin, and Council members Jessica Lappin, Gale Brewer and Robert Jackson, (Josh Robin will moderate).

At 8:15 p.m., NYC Council Speaker and Democratic mayoral contender Chris Quinn will speak at the NYC Black Pride Kick-Off Event, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., Manhattan. (Thompson will also attend).

Headlines…

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly took three free trips to Florida on Mayor Bloomberg’s private jet last year, city records released Tuesday show, continuing a trend of the billionaire mayor paying for public servants’ travel.

The five Democrats seeking to replace Bloomberg participated in their first debate since former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s latest sexting scandal by arguing over his fitness to serve and criticizing outgoing Bloomberg’s legacy.

The debate took place just hours after NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio leapt to first place in a New Q poll, receiving 30 percent of the support from likely Democratic voters one month before the primary.

An empty seat in place of Quinn has become common at the candidate forums that have cropped up with increasing frequency as the race gets down to the wire.

Boldface names in New York’s booming movie and television industry are reaching out to Bloomberg’s potential successors, hoping to secure a promise that the film-friendly environment cultivated by the current administration can continue regardless of who occupies City Hall next.

NYC Comptroller and mayoral candidate John Liu is proposing a historic overhaul of the city’s marijuana laws, saying legalizing medical marijuana and allowing adults to possess an ounce of pot for recreational use would pump more than $400 million into the city’s coffers.

Cuomo said he has no problem with the commission he convened sending subpoenas to real estate firms that have stoked his and other lawmakers’ campaign coffers.

A lawyer who served as counsel to Gov. Mario Cuomo is spearheading a review of the effectiveness and potential improvement measures for the ethics commission created by the former governor’s son.

William Rapfogel, the former head of the Met Council on Jewish Poverty, is “fully cooperating with the criminal investigation” conducted by AG Schneiderman, according to his lawyer, Paul Shechtman. This makes some elected officials nervous.

Those close to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver say he has no intention of dumping his longtime chief of staff, Judy Rapfogel, because of the criminal investigation involving alleged kickbacks that has enveloped her husband and the Met Council, which has received millions of dollars in grants from Albany.

Despite Bloomberg’s vow to fight a federal court judge’s ruling that the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy is racially biased and unconstitutional, any legal challenges to that decision could be weeks or even months off.

A Hillary Clinton spokesman took a shot at Anthony Weiner for claiming he knows what position his wife, Huma Abedin, will have in the former secretary of state’s 2016 campaign.

Changes at the Clinton family foundation have “aggravated long-simmering tensions within the former first family’s inner circle as the foundation tries to juggle the political and philanthropic ambitions of a former president, a potential future president, and their increasingly visible daughter.”

Eliot Spitzer can’t recall if he voted for Scott Stringer for Manhattan borough president. Stringer, on the other hand, “definitely” voted for Spitzer for governor.

The man who supervised the construction of Bloomberg’s $13,000 French bathtub said it’s “the best bathtub that our establishment has ever made.”

A Queens woman was arrested and charged by Schneiderman with bilking the taxpayers out of some $87,000 by living for free in city-funded hotels since concocting a story about losing her home to Sandy.

The state Health Department has good news for hundreds of health care providers around the state: The agency will advance 75 percent of the payments for their services through next year while snags are ironed out in a state takeover of early intervention services.

Republican NYC mayoral candidate Joe Lhota supports an $8 billion plan to build or preserve 150,000 low-cost units in New York City, which would require a $356 million annual increase over the city’s current spending projections.

The Department of Motor Vehicles, looking to crack down on counterfeiting, is rolling out a new, high-tech license that tones down the color and ramps up the security.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker coasted to victory in the Democratic nomination for US Senate last night. In the special general election in October, Booker will face Steven Lonegan, a former mayor of Bogota, N.J., and candidate for governor, who easily won the Republican primary.

To coincide with his Finger Lakes winery tour yesterday, Cuomo launched a new TV ad promoting New York wines.

A social worker at a Westchester County mental health center is the first person to be arrested following a complaint received by the new state Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs.

Some Erie County suburbanites are worried about a possible flood of city students coming to their school districts as a result of the Buffalo Public Schools’ student transfer plan, which would enable students from underperforming city schools to attend better ones.

Education Commissioner John King wants the state legislature to pass a bill giving the Board of Regents the authority to take over school boards in districts failing academically and/or financially.

There was no decision Tuesday in Ian Hunter’s fight to remain on the ballot as a candidate in the Republican primary for mayor of Syracuse, which causes problems for Onondaga County GOP Chair Tom Dadey.

Monroe County received another bad review of its financial situation last night, when Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the county’s credit rating and lowered its outlook from “stable” to “negative.”